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Does incorrect heading use violate WCAG 2.4.6 or just 1.3.1?

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From: Robert Fentress
Date: Jan 11, 2018 11:19AM

If you are reporting conformance with WCAG success criteria, then when
content is incorrectly marked up as a heading, as when just used for
styling purposes, for instance, do you say it just violates 1.3.1 Info and
Relationships
<https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/content-structure-separation-programmatic.html>,
or do you also ding it for failing 2.4.6 Headings and Labels
<https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/navigation-mechanisms-descriptive.html>?
My understanding of 2.4.6 is that it is really is just addressing whether
the heading or label that is being used describes the topic or purpose, not
whether or not a heading is the right markup. Still, if the text is
incorrectly marked up as a heading then, ipso facto, that heading is not
going to really be correctly describing the topic or purpose. What do you
think?

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